The Greyhound Corporation v. Mrs. Frances J. Ault

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

The suit was for damages to plaintiffappellee, resulting from a fall in defendant’s bus, in which she and two other ladies were the only passengers, and as to which they and the bus driver were the only witnesses.

Plaintiff’s claim was that her fall and injuries were the proximate result of the failures 1 of defendant and its driver to exercise extraordinary care and diligence for her protection and safety.

The defendant, denying plaintiff’s claim that it was negligent, alleged that if plaintiff received injuries they were the result of her failure to exercise ordinary…